How does Bulgarian sound to you?

[Anatolian Eagle]

...and when I say one needs to speak at least two Slavic langs to comprehend most of it, I mean it. For instance, you can hear in the song above word- kukla which in Macedonian means doll, same goes for Russian, but in Serbian we say-lutka etc. etc.

Is there any tie to Turkish word "kukla"? "Kukla" is the word for "puppet" in Turkish.

[Damião de Góis]

I only saw the first video (weather girl). Sounded like russian to me, but with a slightly different accent.

[member]

I love that song. I actually prefer it in Serbian.

I thought Kukla was a Greek word because Greeks use that word to mean doll. Where did they get it from?
Macedonian/Bulgarian: kukla
Polish,Ukrainian, Belorussian: lalka
Slovenian, Serbo-Croat: lutka
Slovak: babika which sounds similar to Hungarian and Turkish. Probably coming from the word baby.
Czech: panenka
Latvian, Lithuanian: lelle
Swedish: docka
Danish: dukke

It's lėlė, not lelle.

[Waidewut]

It's lėlė, not lelle.

Sometimes it's cool to see a Latvian word being used as the dominant one when talking about Baltic languages. :naughty2:

[kvarc]

I would like to see these maps. Show me at least 4.

Also, don't show me maps like this one:

that`s actually a France map, from the time when they wanted to make Great Serbia .........anyway

[ioan assen]

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So?

[Vojnik]

Most people would ignorantly say that Bulgarian and Macedonian are the same language. But to me they clearly have differences (on the South Slavic language spectrum). Although, Bulgarian is the most intelligible to Macedonians then any other South Slavic language.

[ioan assen]

So, Vojnik - it does sound like Macodonian? I must agree about that.
However, are Macedonian and Bulgarian different languages? My answer is firmly: NO. In my oppinion Macedonian is a dialect of Bulgarian or Bulgarian is a dialect of Macedonian. Why? I understand 100 percent of Macedonian and I dont have Macedonian origin (in Bulgaria that means I dont descend from Bulgarians from the Macedonian region). Also bear in mind that the two people were living for over 100 years in a different states! The Macedonian language came under heavy Serbian influence while Bulgarian - under Russian. Yet all of the above doesnt stop us from understanding each other 100 percent.
However this doesnt mean we are not different nations TODAY, I think we are (the Macedonians devided from the Bulgarian ethnicity slowly beginning from the liberation and till mid 40ties I think it was a reversable process).

[Archduke]

Nice maps, but most of them still don't show the Serb majority in Macedonia, Nish and Pirot, some are new maps from the 21 century, however i will accept your reply.

[east]

SThe Macedonian language came under heavy Serbian influence while Bulgarian - under Russian.

I can't agree with this. Bulgarian language were influenced by Russian until Liberation 1878. After that it began the splitting of Bulgarian and Russian. During Ottoman rule in Bulgaria have been imported big amount of religious books from Russia, because Ottoman sultan was banned printing. After Liberation have been made couple of language reforms in result the Bulgarian language became more and more different from Russian.